When I missed the physical body of my partner, I meditated on its parts, tossed by the waves, torn, dispersed, and deteriorated. When memories of our lives together became acute and intense, I breathed. I breathed through each wave of yearning, of regret, of guilt, of what-could-have-been. Every time I asked him, “Where are you?” A quiet voice immediately responded, “I am here. I have never left you.” I did not only lose a partner. I lost my childhood all over again. I lost my soul mate. I lost the accepting father and the gentle mother that he was to me. I lost the dream of a “normal life,” which I had tried so hard to achieve. Now I had to face my own mind.
Dang NghiemThe left-hand path adept seeks to liberate him/herself from passive subjection to the illusory nature of Maya, thus freeing the consciousness from the binds of self-created delusion.
Zeena SchreckTag: buddhism materialism-versus-spiritualism left-hand-path jivanmukta spiritual-transformation
The object of Zen is not to kill all feelings and become anesthetized to pain and fear. The object of Zen is to free us to scream loudly and fully when it is time to scream.
Francis Harold CookTag: fear pain buddhism zen feelings zen-buddhism
The main shift, you see, is from placing self at the center of our thoughts to putting others there. It is-what do you say?-a paradox that the more we can focus our thoughts on the well-being of others, the happier we become. The first one to benefit is oneself. I call this being wisely selfish.
David MichieTag: buddhism
As much as possible, it is useful to think of all other beings as being just like me. Every living being strives for happiness. Every being wants to avoid all forms of suffering. They are not just objects or things to be used for our benefit. You know, Mahatma Gandhi once said: 'The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
David MichieI loved the quiet places in Kyoto, the places that held the world within a windless moment. Inside the temples, Nature held her breath. All longing was put to sleep in the stillness, and all was distilled into a clean simplicity.
The smell of woodsmoke, the drift of incense; a procession of monks in black-and-gold robes, one of them giggling in a voice yet unbroken; a touch of autumn in the air, a sense of gathering rain.
Tag: buddhism quiet stillness japan beauty-in-nature kyoto
Thinking we are only supposed to have loving
Sharon SalzbergTag: buddhism compassion inspiration
Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.
Sharon SalzbergTag: love buddhism compassion inspiration
Meditation is a cyclical process that defies analysis, but demands acceptance.
Sharon SalzbergTag: buddhism compassion meditation
Mindfulness is the agent of our freedom. Through mindfulness we arrive at faith we grow in wisdom
Sharon SalzbergTag: love buddhism compassion mindfulness
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